Acer Timeline AS3810T-6415 13.3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
Graphics: Intel GMA 4500MHD (shared system memory)
Display: 13.3inch HD LED LCD
RAM: 4GB ddr3
Hard Drive: 500 GB Toshiba MK5055GSX
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet, blue-tooth, 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n
First of all for all I must say the battery life on this computer is absolutely amazing, even when programming in visual studio or taking notes for class or watching you-tube videos, it definitely lives up to its 8 hour batter claims. I’ve managed to run highly resource intensive programs (brute force project euler solutions) that took around 4 hours to run and kept one of the cores at 100% utilization for the whole duration and after the program finished I still had the battery life to look at the results and verify them and start working on the next challenge.
The 3810t came with Windows Vista Home Premium, and claims a 3.2 in the Windows Experience Index due to the graphics card. Over all it is quit usable, with vista performing as smoothly as one can expect vista to run and only slowing slightly on intensive multitasking.
As for the Linux side of things, there are a few problems with suspend/resume, the Ethernet card, and sound. I tried both jaunty and jaunty with kernel 2.6.30 and both had issues. Powertop claims that the battery will last 7 hours under Linux. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days.
There are also several cheaper versions available, but I wouldn’t recommend a single core processor/vista combo.
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